"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." ― Oliver Goldsmith Topic(s): Success More From Oliver Goldsmith "The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy." "I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." More In Success "Without my dad, I wouldn’t be here."― Maria Sharapova "Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed."― Steven Spielberg "Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."― Gary Ryan Blair